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As they listened to the fatality throes of the sister dispatch Mako sinking in the Pacific where in fact the waters were six a long way deep, the crew of USS Eelfish all of the sudden came old. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and reservists. Hidebound regular Navy officials believed they wouldn't deal with. But struggle they do with reckless give up on, demonstrating themselves on two fronts - against the Japanese at sea, and against their own Admirals, who clung to outmoded principles of how to income war under the ocean. This true-to-life book moves at amazing speed from the invasion of Guadalcanal through the struggle of the Philippine Sea also to the seacoast of Japan. By the end of the war, submarines such as Eelfish possessed so tightened the noose of naval blockade around Japan that the adversary was done as an professional nation, struggling to fight effectively. But American submariners paid dearly for his or her victories. One out of every five men who went to sea in submarines in the Pacific passed away in combat, the highest ratio of any branch of the united states Armed Forces. This is a book about their exploits, how they fought, how they loved, and exactly how they died, written by a man who was there.
